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Melted fuel removal at Fukushima delayed by pandemic

by Mari Yamaguchi
| December 27, 2020 12:03 AM

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's government and the operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant said Thursday that the removal of melted reactor fuel planned to start in 2021 will have to be postponed by about one year due to the worsening coronavirus pandemic.

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